Industry: Design

Typeface Family for Print and Web

One typeface family, 20-plus writing scripts and counting

October is a warm, geometric typeface by Typotheque with fully rounded stroke terminals, designed for signage, wayfinding, branding, and editorial use. Its rational structure supports unambiguous letterforms while soft endings make information emotionally accessible. The family spans three widths plus a variable font axis and is part of Typotheque's ongoing Global Font initiative targeting support for all living languages. It currently covers more than 20 writing scripts, coordinated across a large team of specialist designers.

Set in October

Insights

Three logical widths (regular, condensed, compressed) address mixed-length word-setting problems; a variable font allows intermediate values.
Each weight ships with nine distinct numeral styles—proportional lining as default, with old-style, tabular, small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted variants selectable via OpenType or set as licence-time defaults.
IPA support—including First Nations Canadian roman orthographies (Wakashan, Algonquian, Salishan, and others) and African Indigenous roman orthographies—is embedded inside every script version, requiring no separate licence.
October sits within the November Type System alongside November, November Slab, and November Stencil. Awards include Red Dot Best of the Best 2023 and multiple TDC Typographic Excellence citations.